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Irish Championship

The Irish championship is decided via a league format, with the top 2 playing a short title match. You can see the exact rules and current state of play on this page.Since 2010, we introduced a kick-off weekend tournament. This was designed to handle the difficulty of arranging games between people who lived in different corners of the island. The 2014, is the only championship were 2 players forgot to turn up, and thus defaulted all their games. Lots of other championships have had defaults however. Of course, since all the known competition records are available on the Irish Go website, we are not going to simply repeat them here. Instead, we’re going to show them in a different format.

Year

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

6th

7th

8th

2018

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Kevin Farrell

Tiberiu Gociu, Noel Mitchell

Michael Thai

John Courtney

Steve Flinter

2017

Philippe Renaut

Noel Mitchell

Steve Flinter

Claas Roever, Michael Thai, Matei Garcia

John Gibson

Peter Kasko

2016

James Hutchinson

Noel Mitchell

Michael Thai

Steve Flinter

John Gibson, Tiberiu Gociu, Chris Rafferty

-

2015

Philippe Renaut

James Hutchinson

Noel Mitchell

Roman Pszonka

John Gibson

Peter Kasko

Thomas Shanahan

Tiberiu Gociu

2014

James Hutchinson+

Roman Pszonka

Noel Mitchell

Thomas Shanahan

Tiberiu Gociu

John Gibson

-

-

2013

Noel Mitchell

Roman Pszonka

Claas Roever

Rory Wales

James Hutchinson

Eoghan Barry

Justyna Kleczar

John Gibson

2012

Roman Pszonka

James Hutchinson

Ian Davis

Colin MacSweeny

Noel Mitchell

Justnya Kleczar

Tiberiu Gociu

John Gibson

2011

James Hutchinson

Ian Davis

Colin MacSweeny

Noel Mitchell

Claas Roever

Eoghan Barry

Rory Wales

John Gibson

2010

Ian Davis

James Hutchinson

Noel Mitchell

Eoghan Barry

John Gibson

Rory Wales, Colin MacSweeney, Michael Thai

2009

Ian Davis

Claas Roever

Noel Mitchell

Cao Tong Yu

Colin MacSweeny

Michael Thai

Brian Gallagher

-

2008

Claas Roever

Noel Mitchell

Stephen Flinter

Ian Davis

John Gibson

Gallagher Brian, Bernard Palmer

Olivier Deme

2007

Ian Davis

Stephen Flinter

Noel Mitchell

Terence McSweeney

Claas Roever

Olivier Deme

Brian Gallagher

Bernard Palmer

2006

Noel Mitchell

Stephen Flinter

Ian Davis

Claas Roever

Chris Rafferty

Brian Gallagher

Paul Atling

-

2005

Noel Mitchell

Stephen Flinter

Ian Davis

Ka Chun Leung

Brian Gallagher

Aidan Walsh

John Gibson

Olivier Deme

2004

Noel Mitchell

Stephen Flinter

Olivier Deme

Aidan Walsh, John Gibson, Paul Brennan

Chris Rafferty

Bernard Palmer

2003

Noel Mitchell

Stephen Flinter

John Gibson

Aidan Walsh

Brian Gallagher, Chris Rafferty

Paul Brennan

Tom Murphy

2002

Noel Mitchell

Stephen Flinter

John Gibson, Brian Gallagher

Aidan Walsh

Bernard Palmer, Chris Rafferty

Paul Atling

2001

Noel Mitchell

Stephen Flinter

John Gibson

Brian Gallagher

Bernard Palmer

Chris Rafferty, Aidan Walsh, Paul Atling

2000

Stephen Flinter

Noel Mitchell

Brian Gallagher

Chris Rafferty

John Gibson

Paul Atling

Bernard Palmer, Aidan Murphy

1999

Noel Mitchell

Stephen Flinter

Brian Gallagher

Aidan Egan

Chris Rafferty, John Gibson, Bernard Palmer

Aidan Murphy

1998

Noel Mitchell

Stephen Flinter

Chris Rafferty

Brian Gallagher

Bernard Palmer

John Gibson

Pol O’Gradaigh

Aidan Walsh

1997

Noel Mitchell

Stephen Flinter

Paul Donnelly

Chris Rafferty

John Gibson

Brian Gallagher

Aidan Walsh

Bernard Palmer

1996

Noel Mitchell

Paul Donnelly

Stephen Flinter

Chris Rafferty

Brian Gallagher

John Gibson

Aidan Walsh

Bernard Palmer

1995

Stephen Flinter

Noel Mitchell

Paul Donnelly

Chris Rafferty

Brian Gallagher

Bernard Palmer

John Gibson

Aidan Walsh

1994

Noel Mitchell

1993

Noel Mitchell

John Gibson

Chris Rafferty,Brian Gallagher

Aidan Murphy,Stephen Flinter

Aidan Walsh

Bernard Palmer

1992

Noel Mitchell

Bernard Palmer

Aidan Murphy

Brian Gallagher

John Gibson

Paul Atling

Chris Rafferty

Tom Murphy

1991

Noel Mitchell

Damien Lynch

1990

Noel Mitchell

Paul Eustace

In 1990, the Championship was part of the Irish Open, whilst in 1991, 4 players who were over 6k took part. After this the running of the championship starts to be split over two years, so thus the 1993 championship began in 1992. So although Noel is listed as Champion from 1990 until 1995, it is not yet clear how he won the title 5 times. These years may need correcting!

+ The 2014 championship finished on the 31st of May 2015, and was awarded by adjudication to James Hutchinson who was 1-0 up in the final against Roman Pszonka.